System Administration Guide: Advanced Administration

About Monitoring Performance

While your computer is running, counters in the operating system are incremented to track various system activities. System activities that are tracked are as follows:

Monitoring Tools

The Solaris software provides several tools to help you track how your system is performing. The following table describes these tools.

Table 22–3 Performance Monitoring Tools

Command 

Description 

For More Information 

sar and sadc commands

Collects and reports on system activity data 

Chapter 24, Monitoring System Performance (Tasks)

ps and prstat commands

Displays information about active processes 

Chapter 23, Managing System Processes (Tasks)

vmstat and iostat commands

Summarizes system activity data, such as virtual memory statistics, disk usage, and CPU activity 

Chapter 24, Monitoring System Performance (Tasks)

swap command

Displays information about available swap space on your system 

“Configuring Additional Swap Space (Tasks)” in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration

netstat and nfsstat commands

Displays information about network performance 

netstat(1M) and nfsstat(1M)

Sun Enterprise SyMON 

Collects system activity data on Sun's Enterprise level systems 

Sun Enterprise SyMON 2.0.1 Software User's Guide